Map in TabbedPage and Screen Rotation in iOS
Hi, I ran into a problem using the Xamarin.Forms.Maps.Map control in a TabbedPage on iOS. When the map is set to fill vertical and horizontal on a child tab page, if any of the annotations have their...
View ArticleXamarin.Forms Intellisense not Working on Visual Studio 2015 clean Install
Hi, I'm trying to write a Xamarin.Forms project in Visual Studio 2015 made with a clean install: What do I do? I thought there was built-in support. Regards.
View ArticleAutoComplete Xamarin Forms Cross Platform Sample
Attached is a snapshot of our app. For the "Area" section we have almost 3000 items. If we used a spinner or picker it would be very user unfriendly to let him scroll through the whole list till he...
View ArticleNavigationStack not showing the top page
We are busy developing some new functionality for an app (only on Windows Phone at this stage). In our app we have a TabbedPage set as the MainPage of the app, with multiple views as children. One of...
View ArticleWinPhone: Image.Source & images stored in LocalFolder
My app download some images from a web server and store they in the device local folder ApplicationData.Current.LocalFolder.Path which, using the WinPhone emulator, is for instance...
View ArticleChange the text color for Xamarin.Forms.DatePicker
For Xamarin.Forms.DatePicker It is not obvious that the date field is "tapable" I want to change the text color of it to blue so the user will think it is clickable? I see a background color property...
View Articlei can't find Forms ContentPage Xaml
i created PCL Xamarin forms application, in xamarin studio i was able to add Forms (Forms ContentPage Xaml), in Visual Studio i was able to see only code page. i cant add xaml page at all. i use VS...
View ArticleHow to bind data into Entry in XFGrid
I need code to bind data in Entry which is located in XFGrid. I used below code <ig:XFGrid x:Name="grid"> <ig:ListAdapter x:Name="adapter" AutoGenerateColumns="False" >...
View Articlehow to createFeed screen with image gallery like in facebook?
Hi All, I am developing one application where I had requirement that is create feed screen like in below attached image. Can anybody help me please, how to resolve this?
View ArticleHow to get the control element from code behind without FindByName?
Hi, Am new to xamarin. I'm trying to build a page that show multiple(1-10 not fixed) picker that filter the next corresponding picker. Have created a content page with a stacklayout and creating picker...
View ArticleI am not getting the exact date which is shown in DatePicker date when I...
In native iOS I found some solution, but in Xamarin there could you please tell me the replication of it. How do I write the below code in Xamarin. NSDate* destinationDate = [[[NSDate alloc]...
View ArticleHow to transform secondary ToolbarItems to UIBarButtonItems in the bottom...
First of all, I think the ToolbarItems in Forms are the right approach to have a generic abstraction to the platform specific actions users can execute on each platform. Furthermore, the Android...
View ArticleListView Grouping : Example Please
Can anyone explain to me how to do grouping within the Forms ListView? It's not quite apparent how it is supposed to work. Thank you very much.
View ArticleIssue with using xaml in a shared Xamarin.Forms project
I have a simple app built with Xamarin.Forms. I chose to use the shared project approach instead of PCL. I created a view in the shared project using code (no xaml) and it worked just fine. I then...
View ArticleHow to Display Loading Message in Xamarin.Forms
I am new to Xamarin.Forms in which i need loading message how i can display the loading message please help me out Code:- <AbsoluteLayout> <StackLayout HorizontalOptions="FillAndExpand"...
View ArticleHTML type dropdown in place of Picker.
Hi, Can anyone suggest if its possible to have HTML type dropdown in place of picker like - It will be helpful if anyone can share some code for this. Thanks
View ArticleInherited renderer, OnElementPropertyChanged implementation
I often see this kind of overrides on custom renderer that inherits from XF renderer and I am thinking it is due to developers not putting too much thought into the function: protected override void...
View ArticlePLEASE remove Starter edition!
Starter utterly worthless. You can't do anything with Starter. I tried "getting a taste" (per the website) of Xamarin.Forms and low and behold upon running the app, I get the "Your app is using native...
View ArticleAndroid font size gets overridden by native Android settings
I am setting my font size using the NamedSize enumeration. In iOS the font displays as the set size regardless of the font size set in the os settings. This however is not the case for Android. If I...
View ArticleXamarin iOS build seems to be running slower than usual.
HI Team, We are using Parse as backend for our Xamarin forms project. We are using REST APIs to connect to the PARSE backend. We are testing this app on both Android and iOS devices. On iOS devices,...
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